Bachelor of Applied Science (BAS) Degree

Course Descriptions

Health Administration Courses

HADM 307 Health Informatics (3 credits)
Explores the resources, devices, and methods required to optimize the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of health information to strengthen the organization’s operational performance and market position. The course will explore how information technology can be used to restructure work processes and systems, as well as facilitate change within the healthcare organization.

HADM 335 Health Law and Ethics (3 credits)
Provides students with information regarding the central legal issues in U.S. healthcare delivery and how these relate to the operational practices of healthcare administrators including labor relations, malpractice, patient rights, information management and confidentiality of patient records, patient safety, contracts, legal reporting requirements, and risk management practices.  The course will also allow students an opportunity to understand the key components of legal issues relevant to medical and business ethics and the link between the law and health policy development.

HADM 422 Operations, Outcomes, and Quality (3 credits)
Provides an overview of concepts and techniques for designing, planning, and improving the quality of health operations, including operations analysis, coordinating and planning health operations, and quality improvement methods to improve work processes.

HADM 425 Financial Management & Budgeting in Healthcare (3 credits)
Creates an understanding of the use of financial management concepts and techniques in health management decision making..

HADM 440 Managerial Epidemiology and the Public’s Health (3 credits)
Provides a systematic approach to the evidence-based practice of epidemiological preventive care to promote population health. Students will learn about the traditional epidemiologic model of disease as well as various conceptual models and frameworks that are used to expand the traditional model to include community-based networks, health care systems, and collaborative partnerships. The application of these models to health services management represents the evolution of epidemiology for use in health services management..

HADM 450 Health Policy and Politics (3 credit)
Provides students with an overview of the political context of healthcare organization and delivery. Specific attention will focus on health care regulations, payment sources, and policy formulation and implementation..

HADM 462 Supervision in Healthcare (3 credits)
Provides an integrated overview of management and organization principles and practices for supervisors. Introduces students to a general management framework and fundamental tools from management and organization science that supervisors use to meet strategic and technical organization goals. Course topics focus on the supervisor’s job, managing individuals and groups in organizations, managing operations, and managing the environment..

HADM 492 Seminar: Health Systems (3 credits)
Provides students an opportunity to intensively investigate topics in Health Administration.

Communication, Business, & Other Required Courses

COMT 310 Organizational Communication (3 credits)
Introduces material related to organizational socialization, structure, climate, leadership, power, and conflict management..

COMT 322 Principles of Public Relations (3 credits)
Explores the fundamentals of the public relations field and develops the skills necessary for the public relations practitioner. The course provides the student with practical experience in the development of public relations materials, such as brochures and press releases, as well as the skill for the implementation of communication programs within the organization.

COMT 480 Health Communication (3 credits)
Explores key findings in health communication research and practice, focusing on a wide range of media (e.g., brochures, posters, radio, television, telephone hotlines, Internet) and a wide range of health objectives (e.g., STD/HIV prevention, smoking cessation, cardiovascular disease prevention).  We will examine the literature and key health communication campaigns to determine what are the key ingredients of successful or effective approaches in each medium, for different types of messages and target audiences.

MGMT 321 Principles of Management (3 credits)
Introduces the principles of managing organizations (both public and private). The course familiarizes the student with the skills needed by managers and the best practices used by organizations in a changing global environment. Topics include diversity, globalization, motivation, social responsibility, leadership, strategic planning, group dynamics, and organizational change.

MGMT 452 Human Resource Management (3 credits)
Presents an overview of the laws and practices involved in providing an organization with the needed skilled workforce.  Topics include best practices for handling recruiting and selecting employees, evaluating employee performance, making promotion and discipline decisions, creating fair compensation systems, dealing with sexual harassment and various discrimination issues, and handling union-management relations.

MIS 330 Principles of Management Information Systems (3 credits)
Introduces the fundamental concepts of management information systems in business organizations.

MKT 340 Principles of Marketing (3 credits)
Presents behavioral patterns and legal and economic constraints affecting marketing decisions.  Introduces analytic and control techniques for effective product planning, promotion, pricing and physical distribution.  

REHA 201 Introduction to Diversity (3 credits)
Introduces multicultural knowledge, skills, awareness, and attitudes.  The course focuses on perspectives for understanding and interacting with diverse groups, and will examine theoretical and research literature concerning cultural characteristics and differences related to disability, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, geography, advanced aging, and social class.  Students will be provided the opportunity to explore scholarly as well as practical resources for interacting with diverse individuals and families.

CODE 140 Computerized Medical Billing (3 credits)
Develops the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for a student to understand the theory and application of computerized medical and insurance billing software specifically designed for the medical practice.  This course is required for the Medical Coding and Insurance Billing Certificate.

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